Garmin Connect

Garmin Connect

GARMIN CONNECT -

Garmin Connect:
Upload workouts and activities with the Garmin Communicator Plugin or the wireless Garmin ANT Agent™. Easy to follow Getting Started instructions will guide you through the set-up process.

Upload:
Connect your device to your computer using the USB cable or wireless Garmin ANT Agent. Once on the Upload page, a single click uploads all new activities to your Activities page. The Garmin ANT Agent automatically detects your device and uploads new workouts.

Quick Status:Recent Activities
Your 5 most recent activities will be listed on the Dashboard for quick reference. You can keep tabs on your fitness by quickly toggling between your most recent activities.

Quick Edit
Select Activity and Event Type and name your recent activity with Quick Edit. When you're done editing, simply click Finish.Track Goals
Track the progress of your active goals with the status chart. As you get closer to completing your goal the bar chart will fill until completion.

Training Log:Daily Training Log
Use Garmin Connect for your daily training log. You can use your device for outdoor GPS enabled activities, or use your device for indoor workouts, especially if you have accessories like the heart rate monitor, foot pod or cadence sensor.

Activities Listing
Page through your Activities to get a glance of the training you've been doing. Review activities to gauge your progress.

Calendar
Preview and edit your activities right on a Calendar that will help you make the most of your busy schedule.

Helpful Analysis:Easy to understand analysis
Keep all of your workout data stored at Garmin Connect for comprehensive analysis. Garmin Connect presents your data in clear and easy to understand evaluation. Over the coming months we'll provide even more tools to help you optimize your training.

Detailed Maps:Maps in multiple areas
You can view maps of your activities on almost every page of analysis. From the Dashboard to the Player, you'll be able to view your activity's data and route.

See your route
See exactly where you went on your ride, run, hike, etc. Updated maps from Google Earth and Google Maps make analyzing your activities, and finding other's activities, an interesting and interactive endeavor.

Segment Data:Splits
Get a detailed breakdown of data on your activity. Sort each metric in order, or in ascending or descending order. This feature will continue to be updated with each release to include more options for analyzing your data.

Replay Activities:Relive the experience
The Player allows you to play back your activity on the map along with your activity metrics displayed on a clear and precise graph. Choose the playback speed, desired metrics and push the Play button. Animated bar graphs below the map add to the dynamic representation of your activity being played back.

Track Goals:Goals
Garmin Connect allows you to create fitness goals and send them to supported devices. As you complete activities toward your goals they are tracked in your device and Garmin Connect. On the Goals page, create new goals, track historical progress and gauge your progress against active goals.

History
Check your progress by comparing your current activities with your completed goals. Garmin Connect presents your Historical Goals in an easy to view format, showing what goals were met or exceeded.

Active
Create active goals and send them to your device for daily monitoring. Watch the progress of Active Goals as you upload your activities daily.

Future
By looking at past goals you can set new Goals and push your limits. Set Future Goals in 7 day, 30 day, and Calendar month increments.

Monitor Progress:Splits
Get a detailed breakdown of data on your activity. Sort each metric in order, or in ascending or descending order. This feature will continue to be updated with each release to include more options for analyzing your data.

Reports
Reports are a great way to track your fitness goals and progress. Run reports by activity or event. Activity Type reports allow you to see statistics on the specific activities you're involved with, e.g. road cycling or downhill skiing. Event Type reports allow you to group your events, like races, training or recreation. You can also run reports by day, week, month or year.

Health
Start tracking your weight to keep tabs of your overall fitness. You can manually enter your weight and monitor your progress on a chart. Even better, you can have your weight and 8 other health metrics captured by compatible Tanita monitoring scales automatically uploaded to Garmin Connect through compatible Garmin fitness devices.

Search for Activities:Explore
Enter search parameters in the simple or extended Search Filters. Search by Keyword or our expanded location finder. You can narrow your searches by searching city, state, postal code, country or place name.

Sort
Perform a quick sort to pull up the activities in which you're most interested. Choose specific dates or time frames.

Easy to navigate map
The large map view makes it easy to select the activities in your search results. Just like other maps on the site, Panoramio Photos and Wikipedia layers are available to learn more about the area.

Customize Display:Customize your Activities Listing
View your training log in your Activities listing and customize the listing to your needs. You can view your metrics in a way that makes sense to you. Sort by ascending or descending date. Select preferred metrics for each column. Arrange the column order. Customize your Activities listing so it works for you and lists the data most necessary to optimize your training.

Share with Others:Share your activities
Share your activities with other users, friends, and family. Sharing is made easy with our Share widget which integrates quickly to your contact lists from the biggest webmail providers, Gmail, Hotmail, and Yahoo Mail.

Add to your favorite sites
Share your adventures with your online community on the most popular social networking and bookmarking sites like Twitter, Facebook, del.icio.us and Digg.

Export to 3rd Parties:Back up data
Export your activity for upload to other programs. From the Details page you can export a .TCX file for other fitness programs and .KML for Google Earth. From the Splits page you can export a CSV file with the details of your activity.

Designed for Garmin:
Garmin Connect was designed for Garmin's line of fitness and outdoor devices. Our engineers have worked solely with Garmin devices in order to bring you the best site possible for data analysis with your Garmin device.

GARMIN TRAINING CENTER SOFTWARE -

Track and analyze your fitness activities with Garmin Training Center. Use it to review activity history as well as create workouts and send them to your Garmin fitness device.

Garmin Training Center is compatible with all Garmin fitness devices. It operates directly on your computer, not on the Internet.